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Hackney · London
Hackney Central TV and Media Units
Walls in older London homes are rarely straight, so we scribe the furniture to follow them. We make TV and media units for homes in Hackney Central, each designed at a visit to your home.
- A TV that looks out of place in the room
- Games, controllers and remotes everywhere
- Empty alcoves beside the TV
Ask about TV and media units in Hackney Central
How we make TV and media units for Hackney Central
A built-in TV unit gives the screen, the boxes, the speakers and the cables one planned home. Instead of a stand, a tangle of wires and a few odd shelves, the whole wall is designed at once. For a living room in Hackney Central, we start with a design visit to measure and talk through what you use. We make TV and media units from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, spray-painted or hand-painted, and the usual reasons to get in touch are equipment running hot in a closed cupboard and games, controllers and remotes everywhere.
Mansion block flats tend to have tall ceilings and walls that wander, while a flat in a newer block is more likely to have plasterboard partitions. Most households around Hackney Central live in purpose-built flats, old or new, so we check what each wall is made of before planning TV and media units. Tall pieces are fixed back securely, whichever wall it is.
The furniture is made at our workshop after you have had the quote and decided to go ahead. It describes the design, the materials and the finish agreed at the visit, so every detail can be checked first.
- Where
- Hackney Central (E8, E9, E2)
- Borough
- Hackney
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Making
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Made from
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Fitting days
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Get in touch
- Our contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Flats, conversions and leaseholders
Many London terraces have been converted into flats, which often brings a shared hall and tight turns on the stairs. We plan the size of each section around it.
If you live in a flat, getting the furniture in is planned from the start. At the design visit, we measure the stairs, the landings, any lift and the doors, so the furniture can be made in sections that fit through.
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Is it time for TV and media units?
Others are tired of furniture that doesn’t fit. Standard TV stands rarely suit an awkward wall, and that is where a bespoke unit helps.
We are often asked to help with:
- A screen at the wrong height
- Games, controllers and remotes everywhere
- Boxes and consoles on the floor
- Empty alcoves beside the TV
For families living near Gayhurst Community School, shelving with deep cupboards below keeps books, games and school things in one place.
What to check before you book
- Where they’ll park and unload
- Which materials they’ll use, named in the quote
- Which parts of the job need an electrician or a plumber
- Whether the finish is set out in the quote
From workshop to your room
When the fitting is done, we tidy the room and take up the floor coverings. Before we go, we look over the finished furniture with you and explain how to look after the paint. How long fitting takes depends on the length of the TV wall and what it needs to hold, and your quote sets out the fitting days. Noise from drilling travels in a block, so neighbours may appreciate a note, and some buildings set hours for noisy work. Fitting day is planned around any rules your building has. Saturday work is by arrangement where the building permits it.
- You contact us with a short note about the room and the unit you have in mind.
- We visit to measure the wall and discuss the design. New sockets or wiring are for your electrician, so it is useful to have them in mind early.
- You receive a quote in writing setting out the unit, materials and finish.
- Each section is built in our workshop to the measurements we took, with openings for cables and air.
- The unit is fitted in your home, levelled and scribed to the walls.
Getting ready for fitting day
- Move anything in the hall or on the stairs out of the way
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
- Mention any parking restrictions on your street
Getting a quote
To get a quote for TV and media units in Hackney Central, send us a few details through our contact form. Let us know the room and the rough idea, plus any rough measurements. We’ll arrange a design visit, then send a quote in writing.
Advice
Your questions about TV and media units in Hackney Central
Can you fit furniture in a home close to London Fields station?
Yes. We cover all of Hackney and the rest of London. To get started, you can tell us about the room on our contact form with some details about the room.
My home in Hackney Central is a flat. How do you get the furniture in?
We measure the route in along with the room itself: the stairs, landings, lift and doors. The furniture is made in sections that fit the stairs and lift, and put together in the room. If your building has rules on lift booking or working hours, or your lease needs consent for alterations, it’s worth checking those early.
Can the TV be wall-mounted with a unit around it?
We can plan for either a wall-mounted TV or one standing on the unit. If the TV is wall-mounted, panels and shelves are arranged around the bracket and cables, and if it stands on the unit we size the top for it.
Can a TV unit hold speakers?
Speakers work best in open spaces rather than behind doors. A shelf under the TV suits a soundbar with open bays for bigger speakers. Tell us the speaker sizes when we visit.
Can a built-in unit hide all the wires?
We plan cable routes through the unit from the start, with openings and access panels. Where the cables meet the wall depends on where the sockets are.
Do I need to be in when you fit?
Someone needs to be there to let us in. You do not need to watch us work, though we like to go over the furniture with you at the end.
Built-in living-room furniture in Hackney Central
Homes built before 1919 make up about 33% of the housing in the neighbourhood around Hackney Central, with about 24% built between 1945 and 1972, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. Each era brings its own kind of wall, ceiling height and floor, so it shapes the design from the first measurement. The National Heritage List has 92 entries within half a mile of the centre of Hackney Central. Original fireplaces, shutters and panelling are worth keeping where they survive, and the furniture can be designed around them rather than over them. Red routes are run by TfL, with tight limits on where and when vehicles can stop. If your home is on or just off a main road, it helps to mention it. We will plan where the van can stop.
If you live in a period home close to Church of St Michael and All Angels, walls that bow and floors that slope are why TV and media units are scribed to fit rather than pushed into place. Sutton House, about 0.5 miles north-east, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. For a period home anywhere nearby, picture rails and cornices give TV and media units a line to finish at.
Hackney Central is about 1 mile south-west of Shoreditch, part of the London Borough of Hackney. From period terraces to newer flats in Hackney Central, the furniture is designed around the room as we find it. Across Hackney, we cover Hackney Central and the places around it.
We work across the E8, E9 and E2 postcode area for TV and media units. Streets in the area include Brett Road, Tudor Road and Forest Road, and homes on each of them are within our area for TV and media units. Hackney Central sits close to the A107 and A1207. If your home is on one of them, tell us at the design visit, as some main roads have strict stopping rules. We also cover the places around Hackney Central: London Fields (1 mile south), Dalston (1 mile west), Hackney (1 mile east), Cambridge Heath (1 mile south) and Kingsland (1 mile west). Other parts of Hackney we cover include Stoke Newington (2 miles north-west), Stamford Hill (2 miles north), Upper Clapton (2 miles north), Manor House (3 miles north-west) and Hackney Marshes (2 miles north-east).
Around Hackney Central
In Hackney Central, that includes homes near The Urswick School, The Urswick School - A Church of England Secondary School and Bishopsgate Institute Special Collections and Archives. Hackney Central has its own railway station: London Fields station. Other landmarks nearby include Hackney Walk (0.5 miles north-east) and German Hospital (within half a mile north-west).
Flat-pack or bespoke?
Long shelves are where off-the-shelf often struggles. How much a shelf bends depends on its span, depth and load, and long runs need a thicker shelf, a lip along the front or a support. That is something we plan for in the design.
Bespoke work comes into its own in rooms that aren’t square. Older London rooms tend to have leaning walls, sloping floors and alcoves of different widths, which leaves standard units with gaps at the sides and top.
Where other trades come in
Before you plan the job, it is useful to know what we do not do:
- Setting up and tuning the TV, boxes and speakers
- Aerial, satellite or broadband installation
- New sockets behind the TV, which need an electrician
Not sure whether your space suits TV and media units? You can send us a few details through our contact form and we’ll tell you before you arrange a visit. How it works.
Boards, parts and finishes
- Spray-painted finish
- Hand-painted finish
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Cable routes
- Birch plywood
- Ventilated cabinets